Victoria Dorche

A graduate of the Condé schools, Victoria Dorche is a French illustrator who now lives on a mushroom farm in the Morvan. She draws her inspiration from myths, medieval illuminations and folk art. Her new living environment feeds her work, in which she likes to mix fruit from her garden and mushrooms from her cellar with eccentric plants that she invents. Using gouache as her preferred technique, her vibrantly coloured illustrations offer a joyful, magical vision of reality. She illustrates colourful, sensitive books for Hélium, Sarbacane and Le Grand Palais, and in between publishing projects, she makes card games full of symbols.